YAMAMURA KÔKA (山村耕花)
  aka Yamamura Toyonari (山村豊成)  

 1919

                 
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as
Kagatobi Gorôji (加賀鳶五郎次)

Play: Mekura Nagaya Ume no Kagatobi (盲長屋梅加賀鳶)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/19
Print Date: 1920
*Image courtesy of the Minneapolis Institute of Art
 

               
Onoe Matsusuke IV (尾上松助) as Kagatobi Gorôji (加賀鳶五郎次)

Play: Mekura Nagaya Ume no Kagatobi (盲長屋梅加賀鳶)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 06/01/19
Print Date: 06/01/27
Medium: Machine printed lithograph
Published: Frontispiece to Engei to Eiga (演藝と映画), Vol. 2, No. 6
(June 1, 1927)
Personal Collection
 
Note: This is a lithographic reproduction of a 1920 woodblock print by
Kôka.  Matsusuke IV reprised this role at the Ichimura-za in Tokyo in
July 1924 and perhaps subsequently performed this role regionally,
which might explain why it was included in this magazine.
 
 
 

               
Kataoka Nizaemon XI (片岡仁左衛門) as
Kakiemon (柿右衛門)

Play: Meikô Kakiemon (名工柿右衛門)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/01/19
Print Date: 1920
*Image courtesy of the National Museum of Asian Art

Note: Nizaemon XI also performed this role at the Meiji-za in January
1917.  It is possible that this print reflects that performance.